I’ve seen several posts about training-plans being too easy for guys just starting out, but didn’t really find the answer. So here goes another thread about training plans being too easy. In short, I just started out with TR but have been cycling for a few years. Did the ramp test, built a plan and…

If you can hold 270W for 55 minutes, your ramp test is way off. No wonder every training feels easy. I would that the 55min number as your ftp and let AT adapt and go from there.

Also, your indoor environment might not be allowing you to obtain the optimal FTP, from what you said you held 270 for 55mins outside which is roughly 10% more than your indoor figure, perhaps just bump your FTP manually 10% and see if that smooths things out.

If it gave you andrews you are probably in a recovery week. The adaptive training thing for recovery rides does not really mean anything. I think your ramp test went poorly though. What FTP does the new FTP estimation give you with your TR rides AND the hard zwift efforts for it to feed from? If…

To the main question…yes, it’s easy. Manually increase your FTP to what you most likely think it is (in this case, probably 280ish). Then do the workouts. It’ll decrease your progression levels, but if you mark the first ones as moderate or easy (if they still are) it’ll increase through the PL’s…

Not ver well expressed from my side, but the race results are Zwift races, done in the same room and with the same power meter (Taxc Neo) as my TR-sessions. But tried adjusting to 110% today. That worked out fine. Do you know if adaptive training picks up on that?

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The Ramp Test isn’t anaerobic. that’s one of the points of the ramp is to eliminate the anaerobic contribution. However, it does favor someone with a high maximum aerobic capacity, which might be disadvantageous to someone who has a high lactate threshold, but a low maximum aerobic capacity. Adap…

Manually updating my FTP will reset progression-levels. Would that be a bad thing or nothing to worry about?

not much you can do about that initially, but if you follow my advice once you get the right FTP, you can select a workout with the same progression level you are at now and you’ll be back to where you were.

the above post was with regard to someone trying to start up a new training plan and to see if TR was something he would like and benefit from. So in that case, it’s a no-brainer. Take the correct FTP and the adjusted PLs and start from there. You’re about to get 6 weeks of growth so you have plent…

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ArHu74 March 9, 2022, 11:22am 21

You could use ftp detection to update your ftp. See the thread below how to use ftp detection

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